During the time leading up to the passage of the ban on newly manufactured machine guns being sold to civilians, I saw a quasi-offical number of around 98,000. This number doubled during the summer, I next heard; I imagine this was in large part drop-in sears for AR-15s. The last number I've seen was a few months back, and I think it was around 238,000 total civilian-owned full-auto critters.
FWIW, Art
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